In June 1866, just over a year after the Civil War ended, young Jewish men in Richmond, Virginia, removed their coats and set ...

Alongside Black History Month, Women's History Month, and Jewish American Heritage Month, a new period of observance has been proposed by Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell: Confederate History ...

On July 4, the United States of America will celebrate its 250th anniversary. There’s also another major historical anniversary this year – the start of the Civil War 165 years ago on April 12, 1861.

Thousands of Confederate symbols are standing in public spaces around the nation despite ongoing efforts to have them removed or renamed. More than 2,000 Confederate symbols, including 685 monuments, ...

Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves defended declaring April as Confederate History Month, telling the Daily Caller in an exclusive interview that he thinks “everyone should learn from our history ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – During the American Civil War, eleven Southern cities were badly damaged or destroyed and almost 116,000 people were displaced. That’s a little more than 1% of the ...

Mississippi celebrates Confederate Memorial Day as a state holiday on the last Monday of April. Only four states, including Mississippi, designate Confederate Memorial Day as a paid holiday for public ...

Some persons see every gravesite of a Confederate veteran as a monument to slavery and white supremacy, as if every Confederate soldier was fighting for his right to own slaves, and as if all their ...